Lead for casting

bonesjr · Rookie Member Joined: Jan 26, 2010 Posts: 11

does anyone know where i can find lead for cheap? none of the local tire shops have the wheel weights anymore. and ive been looking over ebay for the past couple weeks and its hard to find without going over whats its worth. current market price is $.99 per pound.

Joe Boleo · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 1:33 pm Post subject: Re: Lead for casting

Look in your phone book for a local scrap yard or salvage dealer and give them a call. I save my old brass and trade it for wheelweights or linotype. Hope this helps. Take care...
Joe.

wiersy111 · Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 12:30 pm Post subject: Re: Lead for casting

There is a swapin and sellin forum on castboolits.com that frequently has lead about a buck a pound. And there are Vendor on the site that sell also. Tons of info and good stuff on the site.

gelandangan · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:14 pm Post subject: Re: Lead for casting

I picked up mine off the pistol range.
Easily the cheapest lead I will ever get, free, except for the labor involved.

rwethereyet · Member Joined: Apr 08, 2010 Posts: 28 Location: BC Canada

Scrap yards, or put an ad in your local buy&sell paper in the wanted section.

Also try the local autowreckers, ask them if you can run aroun the yeard popping off wheel weights for a couple bucks to fill your pockets.

Autowreckers are a great source for many things, and its not like they get a lot of call for used wheel weights.